scaremonger

[ UK /skˈe‍əmʌŋɡɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a person who spreads frightening rumors and stirs up trouble
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How To Use scaremonger In A Sentence

  • It is vital that we look to science to help us here, and not to the various scaremongers and often self-appointed bodies that tend to spread stories of doom and gloom.
  • Some of us just refuse to react, blaming the messengers for their message and accusing the scientists of scaremongering.
  • As for his scaremongering about forced repatriation, what a load of codswallop.
  • Economic statistics also show that the ban has not had the disastrous impact on pub sales feared by many scaremongers.
  • I don't want to be a scaremonger but it would be catastrophic if these trains were attacked.
  • Rambling and canoeing organisations have now launched a fierce rearguard fight against British Waterways, which they say is guilty of scaremongering, and are arguing the case for a Scottish Waterways organisation to be set up.
  • So despite all the claims, the evidence does not support the scaremongers.
  • Their objections are based on nonsense science and are pure scaremongering. The Sun
  • Union leaders accused the principal of scaremongering in an attempt to wreck today's strike.
  • Claiming the mantle of science, these voices have indulged instead in scaremongering. Times, Sunday Times
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